Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Move implicit erase out of chip drivers, clean up

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 08.10.2010 19:11, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> flashrom had an implicit erase-on-write for most flash chip and
> programmer drivers, but it was not entirely consistent. Some drivers had
> their own hand-rolled partial update functionality which made handling
> partial updates from generic code impossible.
>
> Move implicit erase out of chip drivers, and kill some dead erase
> functions at the same time.
> A full chip erase is now performed in the generic code for all flash
> chips on write, and after that the whole chip is written.
> This is needed before we can change write function signature of the
> write functions to take start+len.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 
> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann

Committed in r1206.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel